Re: does anyone care about sparc CDs for sarge?
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 02:38:57PM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:28:42PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Sparc CDs for sarge currently do not boot. Bug #243122. I've seen a lot
> > of workarounds, and zero effort to fix the problem. If this problem
> > remains in 2 weeks, then we will not ship sparc CDs as part of beta 4 of
> > the Debian installer. Which puts us quite close to not including sparc
> > CDs as part of the sarge release. If someone cares about this, you need
> > to get busy and fix it.
>
> BTW, the installer is broken. It seems to expect the need to load cd
> modules in order to detect a CD. However, the cd is already detected and
> recognized by the kernel.
>
> Why is that?
My mistake, the initrd doesn't contain the ide-cd module. That needs to
be fixed. It used to be there. Someone must have removed that.
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